As someone who, by and large has been supportive of Obama, I kind of rolled my eyes when she popped up at the Oscars. However, it drove the right wingers totally nuts so I hope to see much more of this sort of thing over the next few years.

Why stop at the Obamas as presenters? Does the President sing in the shower? Record that shiat, get Alison Krause and her band to lay down a backing track, give it to T. Bone Burnett to produce and enter it into the CMA's (for full effect it has to be the CMA's).

Malia's creative writing assignment? Hire Cormac McCarthy to flesh it out, publish it and get it shortlisted for the Nobel and Pulitzer Prizes. Once it wins there, get the Coens to shoot the adapted screenplay and you have another Oscar win for the Obamas.

Enough of this sort of thing and I figure at least a few thousand teabaggers will drop from rage induced cerebral aneurysms.

Honorable mention:"According to CBS News White House Correspondent Mark Knoller, today's trip marks Mr. Bush's 149th visit to the presidential retreat. The planned three-day stay, during which the president is being joined by family and former and current aides, will bring his total time spent at Camp David to all or part of 487 days."Yes, that's 487 days. And Camp David is not even where the president has spent the most time when not at the White House: Knoller reports that Mr. Bush has made 77 visits to his ranch in Crawford during his presidency, and spent all or part of 490 days there."Source

Snapper Carr:Malia's creative writing assignment? Hire Cormac McCarthy to flesh it out, publish it and get it shortlisted for the Nobel and Pulitzer Prizes. Once it wins there, get the Coens to shoot the adapted screenplay and you have another Oscar win for the Obamas.

Snapper Carr:As someone who, by and large has been supportive of Obama, I kind of rolled my eyes when she popped up at the Oscars. However, it drove the right wingers totally nuts so I hope to see much more of this sort of thing over the next few years.

I imagine they did it as a little dig to the anti-Hollywood right wingers. They know they would be all up in arms about it and just look more deranged from their hate for Obama.

Corvus:Things Democrats complained about Bush under the Bush administration:Going to war with a country under false pretenses - Killing 3000 Americans, costing 1 Trillion dollarsTurning the largest burget surplus into the largest deficit.Torturing prisoners - very likely war crimesNot getting Osama Bin Laden and giving up.

This reminds me of the time Obama made an televised address to students to start the school year a while back. The school I worked at watched it, and the sum of the speech pretty much was "School is important, you are building your future now, so try your best at everything." Pretty standard stuff.

But there were schools in my district that wouldn't show it because parents thought it was some form of socialist indoctrination thanks to folks like Glenn Beck and Rushbo.

I tried to point out to some of my hard core conservative friends that George Bush Sr and Ronald Regan also did a televised address to students during their presidencies (where they actually discussed their policies), but that just sent them into a blind rage. A few still aren't speaking to me due to that conversation from so many years ago.

That's about the point I gave up on trying to reason with right wingers.

Corvus:Snapper Carr: As someone who, by and large has been supportive of Obama, I kind of rolled my eyes when she popped up at the Oscars. However, it drove the right wingers totally nuts so I hope to see much more of this sort of thing over the next few years.

I imagine they did it as a little dig to the anti-Hollywood right wingers. They know they would be all up in arms about it and just look more deranged from their hate for Obama.

that was certainly a result but I don't think that that was the intent.

Snapper Carr:As someone who, by and large has been supportive of Obama, I kind of rolled my eyes when she popped up at the Oscars. However, it drove the right wingers totally nuts so I hope to see much more of this sort of thing over the next few years.

Why stop at the Obamas as presenters? Does the President sing in the shower? Record that shiat, get Alison Krause and her band to lay down a backing track, give it to T. Bone Burnett to produce and enter it into the CMA's (for full effect it has to be the CMA's).

Malia's creative writing assignment? Hire Cormac McCarthy to flesh it out, publish it and get it shortlisted for the Nobel and Pulitzer Prizes. Once it wins there, get the Coens to shoot the adapted screenplay and you have another Oscar win for the Obamas.

Enough of this sort of thing and I figure at least a few thousand teabaggers will drop from rage induced cerebral aneurysms.

If you are watching the Oscars, you do not deserve to roll your eyes at anything.

skullkrusher:Corvus: Snapper Carr: As someone who, by and large has been supportive of Obama, I kind of rolled my eyes when she popped up at the Oscars. However, it drove the right wingers totally nuts so I hope to see much more of this sort of thing over the next few years.

I imagine they did it as a little dig to the anti-Hollywood right wingers. They know they would be all up in arms about it and just look more deranged from their hate for Obama.

that was certainly a result but I don't think that that was the intent.

lennavan:skullkrusher: Corvus: Snapper Carr: As someone who, by and large has been supportive of Obama, I kind of rolled my eyes when she popped up at the Oscars. However, it drove the right wingers totally nuts so I hope to see much more of this sort of thing over the next few years.

I imagine they did it as a little dig to the anti-Hollywood right wingers. They know they would be all up in arms about it and just look more deranged from their hate for Obama.

that was certainly a result but I don't think that that was the intent.

You're gonna regret not wearing that tinfoil hat mister!

it's the price I pay for hoping that the First Family does not do things to troll Free Republic

skullkrusher:lennavan: skullkrusher: Corvus: Snapper Carr: As someone who, by and large has been supportive of Obama, I kind of rolled my eyes when she popped up at the Oscars. However, it drove the right wingers totally nuts so I hope to see much more of this sort of thing over the next few years.

I imagine they did it as a little dig to the anti-Hollywood right wingers. They know they would be all up in arms about it and just look more deranged from their hate for Obama.

that was certainly a result but I don't think that that was the intent.

You're gonna regret not wearing that tinfoil hat mister!

it's the price I pay for hoping that the First Family does not do things to troll Free Republic

I have it on good authority* the First Family reads Free Republic daily and cares deeply because they have nothing better to do.

ITGreen:Orange-Pippin: Delay: Unlike Laura Bush, Michelle Obama never went on TV and told how she killed a guy.

Wat. Is this a meme I missed?

Laura Bush Killed a Guy

Thanks for the link!Wow. I hope that was satire:

FTASo, technically, Laura Bush did not kill a man. Laura Welch killed a man....And if one wishes to get even more technical, the guy Laura Welch killed driving the other vehicle wasn't a man, either. He was a 17-year-old guy named Michael Douglas.

Orange-Pippin:ITGreen: Orange-Pippin: Delay: Unlike Laura Bush, Michelle Obama never went on TV and told how she killed a guy.

Wat. Is this a meme I missed?

Laura Bush Killed a Guy

Thanks for the link!Wow. I hope that was satire:

FTASo, technically, Laura Bush did not kill a man. Laura Welch killed a man....And if one wishes to get even more technical, the guy Laura Welch killed driving the other vehicle wasn't a man, either. He was a 17-year-old guy named Michael Douglas.

netizencain:ManateeGag: does anyone on that network do any fark research before they speak?

That's one thing I've learned online... you better do a quick google search before you spout of at the mouth. Obviously they don't teach that at journalist camp.

THIS. I've embarrassed myself enough online as an anonymous nobody. I would never go on TV and make such declarative statements without first researching the hell out of what I was about to say. But then again, I'm not a sociopath like half of theTV pundits out there.

In some seriousness, I remember that there was occasionally a thing to make "Stepford Wife" references in relation to Laura Bush. I always found it puerile, but I never spoke up about it. Maybe I should have.

I don't recall libs mocking Laura Bush in any other way, though - certainly not the kind of heat Michelle Obama has drawn. Lots of pointing and laughing at the daughters when they got in trouble, though.

Mithiwithi:In some seriousness, I remember that there was occasionally a thing to make "Stepford Wife" references in relation to Laura Bush. I always found it puerile, but I never spoke up about it. Maybe I should have.

I don't recall libs mocking Laura Bush in any other way, though - certainly not the kind of heat Michelle Obama has drawn. Lots of pointing and laughing at the daughters when they got in trouble, though.

Mithiwithi:In some seriousness, I remember that there was occasionally a thing to make "Stepford Wife" references in relation to Laura Bush. I always found it puerile, but I never spoke up about it. Maybe I should have.

I don't recall libs mocking Laura Bush in any other way, though - certainly not the kind of heat Michelle Obama has drawn. Lots of pointing and laughing at the daughters when they got in trouble, though.

The only thing I remember doing is yelling "start at home" whenever she'd be on tv trying to get kids to read books. Just imagine the indoctrination scare that would be going around if Michelle had picked books instead of vegetables.

Mithiwithi:In some seriousness, I remember that there was occasionally a thing to make "Stepford Wife" references in relation to Laura Bush. I always found it puerile, but I never spoke up about it. Maybe I should have.

I don't recall libs mocking Laura Bush in any other way, though - certainly not the kind of heat Michelle Obama has drawn. Lots of pointing and laughing at the daughters when they got in trouble, though.

When Laura Bush adopted literacy as her obligatory First Lady cause, no one accused her of trying to force us to read certain books.

Michelle Obama chooses healthy eating as her cause, and legions of butthurt teabaggers complain that she wants to force us to eat certain foods.

There was (and will be) people on the left who take criticism of a Republican or his family too far, but nothing I have ever seen from the left comes close to the way the right treated President Clinton and his family, and that comes no where close to how they treat the Obamas.

There are a frightening number of truly ignorant, truly hateful, full-on assholes on the right.

I was wondering when the right wing outrage would begin. Especially since she was presenting the award for Argo. Wasn't there some right wing outrage over that movie too? I just can't keep track of everything anymore.